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A56830 King Solomon's recantations being an extract out of the famous works of the learned Francis Quarles ... : with an essay, to prove the immortality of the soul, by way of symetry, or connexion. Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. 1688 (1688) Wing Q103; ESTC R2993 60,560 98

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